The Dogs of War (1980)
May 17, 2026
Irvin's 1980 mercenary thriller. Christopher Walken leads a coup in a fictional African country.
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2000sPasschendaele (2008)
May 15, 2026
The project was inspired by stories his grandfather told him about fighting in the mud of Belgium. Gross plays Sergeant Michael Dunne, a Canadian veteran of Vimy Ridge sent home with combat fatigue.
2000sThe Red Baron (2008)
May 15, 2026
The Red Baron is a German-produced biopic about Manfred von Richthofen filmed in English with German actors. That sentence describes most of what is right.
2000sAdmiral (2008)
May 15, 2026
Admiral is a Russian biopic about Aleksandr Kolchak, the Imperial Navy admiral who became Supreme Ruler of Russia during the civil war and was executed in 1920 by a Bolshevik tribunal. Kolchak commands a minelayer that catches a German cruiser.
Black and WhiteThe Lost Battalion (1919)
May 15, 2026
The Lost Battalion from 1919 is a silent docudrama made within months of the actual event it depicts. Major Charles Whittlesey appears as himself.
2010sBeneath Hill 60 (2010)
May 15, 2026
Beneath Hill 60 is an Australian war film about a part of the First World War nobody talks about. Brendan Cowell plays Captain.
1990sGettysburg (1993)
May 15, 2026
Gettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Tom Berenger plays James Longstreet.
1950sThe Horse Soldiers (1959)
May 15, 2026
The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's only Civil War film and one of his weaker collaborations with John Wayne. Wayne plays Colonel John Marlowe, a Union.
1980sGlory (1989)
May 15, 2026
Matthew Broderick plays Colonel. Denzel Washington won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing Private Trip, a runaway slave with no patience for white officers.
2000sThe Patriot (2000)
May 15, 2026
The Patriot is a Roland Emmerich film about the American Revolutionary War starring Mel Gibson. He fights a guerrilla war against the British.
1950sThe Raid (1954)
May 15, 2026
Van Heflin plays Major Neal Benton, a Confederate officer who has escaped from a Union prison camp at Plattsburgh and is plotting a raid on St. Albans, Vermont with five fellow escapees. The historical event is real.